Abu Usman Adil

Abu Usman Adil (died 29 April 2012) was the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

Biography
Abu Usman Adil was born in Uzbekistan to a family of Sunni Muslims, and he became a follower of Salafism, an extreme branch of Islamism that sought to implement sharia law across the world. He became the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, an organization with links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and he hid out in Pakistan, where the IMU had bases. He was killed on 29 April 2012 in a USAF airstrike in Miranshah on an abandoned school in a strike that killed three others, including Tajiks and other Uzbeks. On 2 August, the IMU website Furqon announced his death, and Usman Ghazi became the new IMU leader.